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A commercial diver may have discovered a lost nuclear bomb off the coast of British Columbia near the Haida Gwaii archipelago.

Sean Smyrichinsky was diving for sea cucumbers when he discovered a large metal device that looked a bit like a flying saucer.

The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) believes it could be the “lost nuke” from an American B-36 bomber that crashed in the area in 1950.

The government does not believe the bomb contains nuclear material. It is sending naval ships out to the site to verify the find. Mr Smyrichinsky says he came upon the device while diving off the coast of Pitt Island near Haida Gwaii in early October, which is near the Alaskan border with British Columbia. It was “bigger than a king-size bed”, perfectly flat on top with a rounded bottom and had a hole in the centre just “like a bagel,” he said. “I found something really weird, I think it’s a UFO,” he joked with his fellow divers once he came to shore. The area is remote, and Mr Smyrichinsky says he had to wait a few days before he could go into town and find somebody who might know what it is.

One of his friends, an “old-timer” from the area, had an idea: “Maybe you found that nuke they lost here in the 50s!”

Cold War Secret

The story of the lost nuke has plagued military historians for more than half a century. In 1950, American B-36 Bomber 075 crashed near British Columbia on its way to Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. The plane was on a secret mission to simulate a nuclear strike and had a real Mark IV nuclear bomb on board to see if it could carry the payload required.

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About 50 or 60 inmates are understood to have been removed from HMP Bedford after a number of prisoners were involved in a riot.

At least 150 inmates are thought to have been involved in Sunday’s incident at the Category B facility; the Prison Officers Association has said 230.

Bedfordshire Police said three men had been arrested in connection with a criminal investigation into the unrest. Two inmates were taken to hospital for treatment and have returned to prison.

The three men, aged 39, 37 and 26, are being questioned on suspicion of committing offences under the Prison Security Act 1992. An internal investigation is also taking place into what happened.

Police and specially-trained officers were called at about 17:00 GMT following reports of inmates getting out of cells, seizing keys and starting fires. Officers from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Essex attended the scene, police said.

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The joint leaders of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party, People’s Democracy (HDP), have been arrested along with at least nine other MPs.

Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag are accused of spreading propaganda for militants fighting the Turkish state. Hours after Mr Demirtas was arrested in Diyarbakir, a car bomb killed eight people and injured more than 100.

Militants have been fighting for years to achieve independence for the Kurds, Turkey’s biggest ethnic minority.

Turkey remains under a state of emergency that was imposed after a failed military coup in July. The emergency allows President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his cabinet to bypass parliament when drafting new laws and to restrict or suspend rights and freedoms.

The government says those detained had failed to respond to a summons for questioning and issued an arrest warrant for two other HDP MPs currently abroad. This is a major escalation of a clampdown that has seen Kurdish media closed down and the mayor of Diyarbakir arrested.
Hopes of an end to Turkey’s decades-long Kurdish problem have evaporated since a ceasefire with the [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] PKK broke down in 2015, leading to a wave of tit-for-tat attacks.

Mr Demirtas elicited international support with his liberal politics but critics say he has failed to distance the party sufficiently from the PKK. Friday’s detentions are likely to provoke more tension among Kurds – and more violence too.

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The government has been urged to set a date for the resumption of UK flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, one year after they were suspended over terrorism fears.

The flight ban to the Egyptian Red Sea resort followed the suspected bombing of a Russian airliner on 31 October 2015, killing all 224 people on board.

A group of more than 30 travel firms is calling for a decision on when direct flights from the UK can resume. The government said British nationals’ security was its “top priority”.

Sharm el-Sheikh previously attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors from the UK each year, making it an important resort for airlines and holiday companies, but flights from the UK to the airport were suspended on 4 November last year, and the Foreign Office continues to advise “against all but essential travel by air to or from Sharm el-Sheikh”.

More than 30 travel companies including TUI Group, Saga Holidays and Expedia have formed a partnership – The Travel Industry Egypt Advisory Group – to work with the Egyptian tourist office in London and lobby the UK government for a decision. They fear that if the uncertainty is not ended soon, it will be too late to include the destination in their winter 2016/17 programmes.

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President Barack Obama has urged Democrats of all ethnic backgrounds to get out and vote for Hillary Clinton, warning that the fate of the US republic – and the world – is at stake.

He said her Republican opponent Donald Trump was a threat to hard-earned civil rights. President Obama was speaking at a rally in North Carolina.

Mr Trump said Mr Obama should stop campaigning for Mrs Clinton and focus on running the country. “The bottom line is, no-one wants four more years of Obama,” he told supporters in Pensacola, Florida. He said Mrs Clinton had become “unhinged” in recent days.

Americans will vote for the candidate they want to see in the White House next Tuesday, with recent polls showing the race tightening between Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump. “The fate of the republic rests on your shoulders,” President Obama told supporters in the key battleground state of North Carolina. “The fate of the world is teetering and you, North Carolina, are going to have to make sure that we push it in the right direction.
“I am not on the ballot, but I tell you what – fairness is on the ballot; decency is on the ballot; justice is on the ballot; progress is on the ballot; our democracy is on the ballot.”

The FBI is now investigating new emails that may be linked to its probe into Mrs Clinton’s private email server. The agency’s director, James Comey, has faced a fierce backlash for announcing the move just 11 days before the presidential election.

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